If you ever played the Geometry Wars series back in the day, or are into titles like Vampire Survivors, you might be interested in this rather familiar-looking release from indie studio Brain Seal.
It's called Geometry Survivor and is described as a rogue-lite survival auto-shooter with aesthetics similar to the Geometry Wars. It will be made available for the Switch and multiple other platforms later this month on 21st February 2024. There's also a free demo currently available to try out on Steam.
Here's a bit about it, direct from the PR:
"Geometry Survivor offers a survival experience with rogue-lite elements, where players fight waves of enemies, unlock innovative upgrades, acquire new ships, and conquer the challenging grid world.
"With one-handed control and auto-shooter mechanics, players must endure 20 minutes of intense combat, facing diverse enemies and enjoying retro visuals and music reminiscent of the 80s."
Features:
- One-hand gameplay: Use just one hand to control the direction of your ship.
- Auto-Shooter: Your weapons fire automatically, letting you concentrate on staying alive.
- Weapons: Each run allows you to get a unique combination of weapons.
- Credits: Earn credits and permanently unlock new upgrades.
- Enemies: Enjoy the multitude of enemies each with their own AI.
- 20 minutes of intense gameplay.
- Retro visuals and music straight from the 80s.
- Delicious gameplay!
Would you be interested in a game like this on the Switch? Tell us below.
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Looks neat but blinding. Kinda hope it has a demo; I'd like to try it but I'm not totally sure if I could play through the chaos.
Geometry wars as an auto-shooter does not sound very fun at all to me. And generic neon Vampire Survivors sounds... slightly more appealing I guess?
I'm assuming we will be seeing about a hundred more Survivor knockoffs this year, this probably will be better than most.
I'm glad we have a term for it now: auto-shooter.
Also, I wish more games allowed 1-hand gameplay. It's generally just the waifu games. But when scrolling thru gobs of text in an RPG in handheld mode, I wish I could lay on my side and still progress. There are only two commands at those moments: move the cursor and press A. The right stick is usually not in use, so I have one input needed per Joy Con which is super inefficient.
Geometry wars was fun back in the day but an auto shooting mechanic doesn’t sound as good.
Hm. Yes. Quite. Another indie roguelike.
Anyways.
I saw the thumbnail and thought about Big Bang Mini. I LOVED that game!
Back on the day I was able to beat and unlock everything vampire survivors put in the table, but with last updates for some reason I feel sick playing it so I've had to drop it. It's sad as this looks neat, but it's a big no no at this point.
It's just Geometry Wars with a crappy gimmick like auto shooting. Like Lumines Remastered, Tetris Effects, Debris Infinity, and Tempest 4000, I'll probably buy it as another time killer game but only if it cost under $10.
I loved my Geometry Wars on the Wii! Played the heck out of it.
I'm not into rogue lite anymore though. It's just a genre that does not respect your time and I don't have time for this anymore. So I'll pass but happy to see the series is still alive.
Yes please. This looks fantastic!
I want Jeff Minter to do one of these games. Llama ASS or something.
But yeah. Gimme this.
I wanted this until I read auto shooter...
Yeah. I notice the auto-shooter bit is very polarising. I’ve actually never played one before but I’ve played the twin-stick shooters in this style. (Geometry Wars and Debris Infinity.)
Thank you to the company for supplying a demo. I’ll get the demo and I bet I like it and get the full game.
A Geometry Wars-clone in the form of an ASS game (Automatic Survival Shooter)? Sign me up.
Looks a lot like Void Scrappers. I’m sure it will cost way more than that game though. If you haven’t played Void Scrappers, give it a shot. It’s an excellent Vampire Survivor-like. I’ve been putting loads of hours into it. It’s only US$2.39 right now, too!
Ugh, and here I thought Geometry Wars finally made a return, and on the Switch...figures.
Looks like Vampire Survivors without the charm to me, but I'm sure it'll find its audience.
Looks like they're trying to hop onto the Vampire Survivors train....
I used to play the crap out of geometry wars on xbox 360 back in the day. This Survivor variation looks good, a natural progression of the core game. I've been looking to scratch my geometry wars itch ever since 2006-7-8 so im pretty happy.
Honestly it’s really nice to see Geometry Wars back, but I’m not sure this is what I want from it. Vampire Survivors is fine enough and this is much prettier, but it really does feel like GW with 50% less gameplay.
I’d buy another twin-stick in a heart beat but I don’t need any more idle, auto-shooters. I played 5-6 games of VS, got to the point where I was invincible and just left my character standing on the spot, only interacting to press A to select a level-up reward, for about 6 or 7 mins and was done with the game. Eventually the game despawned all the enemies and dropped a boss directly on me that killed me immediately, it felt pretty broken. Maybe GW will improve it all though?
I’ll keep an eye on it for now, try out the demo.
@ChromaticDracula I understand. I have Geometry Wars DS and it’s incredible. I scratch that itch on Switch with Debris Infinity. It’s a great game fairly priced. (£4.49 on eShop.)
Admittedly it’s not quite as good as Geometry Wars so I use it for shorter play sessions but I love it.
I loved Geometry Wars on the Wii. I actually might give this a go on discount tbf. I appreciate that auto-shooter may take something away from it but I still want to give it a bash. What about just porting Geometry Wars?
@Boopero ty so much for the recommendation. VS is great!
Geometry Survivor is sick actually. Really good.
I play Debris Infinity on Switch all the time and still play Geometry Wars on DS sometimes so I love these type of games.
It’s £4.29 but I had some Gold Points and got it for £1.34.
I wondered if I could be player one and player two with a Joy-Con in each hand but it doesn’t seem to have two player.
I think I’m over-complicating it. Games like this I play for years but in short bursts.
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